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Dead frogs and fish litter a pond on Bill Kemner's land in right, discusses remedies with Norfolk and Western
Sturgeon, where ponds alongside the Norfolk & Western personel and D. W. Ryckman, president of Ryckman's
Railroad tracks have been found to be polluted with Emergency Action & Consulting Team,
orthochlorophenol. EPA engineer Harry Gilmer, top
N& W to clean spoiled ponds
ByMikeDeMott
Missoorian stafi writer
STURGEON A chemical engineer for the
Environmental Protection Agency said
Tuesday Norfolk and Western Railroad is
responsible for cleaning up the contaminated
ponds near the site of the Jan 10 Sturgeon
train derailment
The railroad has accepted the decision and
has agreed to clean the two ponds and pay for
all costs involved Railroad officials have
hired an outside consulting firm to assist
On Monday, tbe railroad contacted a St.
Louis- base- d company, Ryckman's Emer-gency
Action & Consulting Team, which is
conducting a background investigation into
the chemical spill with proposals for site
restoration Mark Ryckman, REACT vice
president, said it is still too early to say which
Insight
method and procedure will be used to restore
the area.
Harry Gilmer, the EPA engineer, met with
railroad representatives at the spill site
Tuesday and offered suggestions for
removing the toxic chemicals in the ponds
Gilmer said there are several ways in which
the pond water may be treated He suggested
three possibilities
A carbon absorption method in which
pond water would be passed through carbon
filters or a carbon device would be placed in
the water to trap the chemical pollutant or-thochlorophenol
An ionic exchange process using a resin
bed to exchange pollutant tons with ions in the
bed
A biological degredation method using a
culture to break down the pollutant
chemically J
Gilmer said the EPA's biggest concern is
that no further pond water drains into nearby
Saling Creek. Simple earth dikes were built
by the railroad to seal the ponds after the
pollutant chemical w as found in the ponds
Gilmer said some of the chemicals were
found in the creek, but he didn't know w hether
it could be considered contaminated Rail-road
and REACT representabves are
scheduled to meet with EPA personnel
Monday to review a plan to restore the area
4tyckman said a timetable for complete
restoration may be made Monday
Gilmer said EPA will conduct independent
tests to verify the progress of the restoration
and to determine safe chemical levels in the
water for the railroad to achieve
rather than reserving comment to the White
House The State Department spokesman,
Hodding Carter, called the increase ' untimeh
and unjustified '
One exception, however, was Alfred E Kahn
the president s anti- inflati- on adviser, who issued
a statement saying that until the United States
reduces its dependence on OPEC oil. ' we can
expect them to extort from us everything they
think the market will bear "
Based on a daily import of 8 5 million barrels of
crude oil and refined products, the OPEC in
crease in the base pnce will add one to two cents
to the price of a gallon of gasoline at the pump
about $ 825 million to the expected $ 20 billion trade
deficit, and a small fraction to inflation
That analysis, however, did not take into ac-count
the effect of the surcharges that mav be
charged bv members of OPEC Libva ana
Venezuela already have announced such in-creases
President Carter met Tuesday with Secretary
of Energy James R Schlesinger and with several
members of the House and Senate, including Sen
Henry M Jackson, D- Wa- sh , chairman of the
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
After the meeting, Jackson told newsmen the
main topic of discussion was the president's new
energv policy, the announcement of which has
been postponed until sometime next week
Democrats discuss severe cut in revenue sharing
By Paul O. Wilson
Washington bureau
WASHINGTON Democrats on the House
Budget Committee began closed discussions
Tuesday on staff recommendations aimed at
eliminating state revenue sharing for fiscal year
1980.
Although the move is significant, it is only the
first step by the committee in a long budgetary
process that could if successful deny
Missouri $ 43 million in anticipated revenue. The
reduction would mean either substantial
program cuts or healthy tax increases for
Missounans.
Rep. Richard A. Gephardt, D- Th- ird District,
Missouri's only congressman on the important
Budget Committee, said, " It was the staffs
recommendation that state revenue sharing be
exorcised from the budget."
In 1978 Missouri received $ 129 million for
state, county and local revenue sharing The
proposal discussed in the Budget Committee
would eliminate only the state's share Ted
Bornstein, director of the state's Washington
office, said, " Missouri would be severely hurt by
eliminating the state's share of revenue sharing
It would mean cutting capital improvements
and human services, or raising taxes to make up
the difference."
He also said the move is particularly
disturbing because the Missouri Legislature
already is planning to spend its share of the
money in July.
" They are changing the rules in the middle of
the game," Bornstein said. " The program is not
due to expire for another year, and the state is
counting on that money desperately "
One of the major reasons behind the proposal
is the huge budget surpluses that states like
Alaska, Texas and California have built up But
Bornstein said it is unfair to penalize Missouri
for the way Gov. Jerry Brown has run
California
" It was disgracefully negligent of California
to amass the kind of surplus they did " Born-stein
said
He also said that for states like Missouri, " The
surplus is tied to the vaganes of the economy,
and we can't control that Besides, every state
has to have an emergency fund " Missouri
maintains a $ 50 million surplus for emergencies
Even if the budget committee compromised
and decided to cut state revenue sharing by half,
Bornstein said the move " would still create
terrible havoc for Missouri "
Gephardt said he already is feeling pressure
from Missouri on the issue, having been
telegrammed by the governor, called by Born- ste- m
and contacted by the mayor's office in St
Lotus
The proposal if accepted by the Democratic
Caucus would still have to go through the full
committee, the House, and the Senate before it
could be signed into law by the president
In town
today
9 8. m. to 3 p. m. Central
Missouri Regional High School
Senior Exhibition, Fine Arts
Gallery, University.
Noon to S pja. Five Centuries
of Master Graphics, Museum of
Art and Archaeology, Pickard
Hall, University.
7 p-- m. " Women in Music:
Ancient Tunes to the Present,"
Charters Lecture Auditorium, j
Stephens College. j
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of mall's impact
By Craig Overfelt and Kathryn Phflhps
Missounan staff writers
The board of directors of the Downtown Special
Business District Tuesday night passed a resolu-tion
asking the Citv Council to study the feasibil
it of locating a regional shopping mall in central
Columbia The vote was 7-- 0
If the feasibility study shows the mall would be
' in the public interest" and would strengthen the
downtown economy . the resolution also asks the
council to take affirmative action m conjunction
with private enterprise to locate the mall in the
downtown' area
Anytime a mall of ths size comes into a com-munity,
studies should be done to determine the
location and the communitv interest," said board
chairman Marquis Landrum, president of First
National Bank and Trust Co
In front of a standing- room- onl- y crowd in the
Countv- Cit- v Building, Landrum said it is not an
obstructionist resolution If the studies indicate
that a mall is needed in Columbia, I'm in fav or of
having one here All w e want is for the city to take
a strong stand on the location and feasibility of a
regional mall "
Landrum the resolution's author, voluntanlv
withdrew two points which would have asked the
council to prohibit and delav the establishment of
a regional mall outside the downtown area
Favoring the revised resolution, board member
and local attorney Dave Bear said, " I don't see
anything wrong with asking the City Council to
make studies to see what the impact will be, but I
don't think we should ask the City Council to
make a resolution to delay, prohibit or tell the
maU where to locate itself '
But downtown businessman Glenn Braden
owner of Suzie Scott's Children's World. 710 E
Broadway, was opposed even to a council studv
before the April 3 election " The timing is abso-lutely
bad What would they ( City Council
members ) have' A week to introduce the thing'' I
don't think we need a studv
One large mall already is m the planning
stages Dalton and Daniel Patterson of Columbia
said March 13 they are joining the St Louis- base- d
May Department Stores Co in planning the con-struction
of a mall here of up to 800,000 square
feet ( 72 000 square meters)
Following the mall decision the board heard a
report on downtown parking from Assistant Citv
Manager Charles Hargrove
There are about 4,100 publicly and privately
owned parking spaces in the central business
district Hargrov e said Traffic in that area has
exceeded parking capacity, making parking a
major issue among council candidates
The citv will complete an agreement to buv the
old Waoash railroad station next week, Hargrov e
said, and immediately will construct a surface
parking lot on the cleared areas of that land
Carter thinks oil price hike
may have been much worse
From our wire services
WASHINGTON The Carter administration
reacted with apparent calm Tuesday to the latest
increases in crude oil prices announced in
Geneva by the Organization of Petroleum Ex-porting
Countries The increases mean that the
consumer soon will pay one to tw o cents more for
a gallon of gasoline
The increase, which will add 70 cents to the
pnce of a barrel of imported oil o er that planned
earlier for April 1, was the least that anv official
or oil analvst here expected from the two- da- y
meeting
The OPEC members increased prices bv 9
percent and gave all OPEC members free rem to
tack on unlimited extra surcharges'" that will
add billions of dollars to the world's fuel bill
The 13- nati- on group voted at its two- da- v con-ference
to raise crude oil prices from $ 13 34 to
$ 14 54 per barrel But in addition, the conference
chairman announced, every OPEC state ' is free
to lay on whatever premium or surcharge it
wants "
The pricing decision, which takes effect Sun-day,
indicated a sky ' s- the- u-mit
approach by the
oil" cartel but it also reflected a split between
radical and moderate members of OPEC
The administration's attitude was signaled by a
decision to allow the State Department to respond
Few issues emerge in Second Ward race
By Wayne J. Heflman
Missoorian staff writer
Few issues have emerged in the
Second Ward race between Holme
Hickman and James Williams. Neither
candidate has campaigned extensively
or expects to do so. Neither plans to
attack his opponent's stand on any
issue.
Hickman, however, is quick to point
1 out several problems that will face the
City Council during the next two years.
He says the council will have to select
additional sources of electricity to meet
its rapidly growing needs. The options
include construction of a new plant that
would take more than seven years to
complete.
The aty could pool its resources with
another mumcipality, but receive only
a limited portion of its output while
needs continue to grow. The city could
continue to purchase electricity from a
commercial supplier, but instability in
supply and costs make continued
purchases unlikely.
Hickman ays the council should use
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zero- base- d budgeting to determine
whether it will need a new revenue
source. Each city department head
would have to justify the entire alloca-tion
in any budget rather than just
adding funds for higher costs and new
programs. If the city studies new
revenue sources, it also should consider
the eqitability of the systems, he says.
Electric rates should be examined to
determine what type of use the rate
promotes, Hickman says The council
probably will be asked to revise the
rates to promote energy conservation
and to discourage use during peak
hours.
A major decision will have to made,
Hickman says, on what steps the
council should take to preserve the
downtown shopping area Construction
of a regional shopping mall could draw
much of the area's sales from down-town
merchants.
Both Hickman and Williams favor the
widening of West Broadway. Hickman
says the street must be widened to
provide effective ingress and regress to
the downtown area. Without effective
routes to the downtown area, he says,
shoppers will be discouraged from
going there.
Williams says the aty should im-prove
health standards in low- inco- me
housing projects. He says new
programs are need to emphasize the
quality of basic services, Including
water purity and sewer operations.

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- flin V4, ISLoTw0aRyIMctL socie COLUMBIA, HO. 65201
Meet r
I
the candidates rY of the Second Ward, Page 16A T Y--
5
I
; Tr 19334
ssav
Major league TN
preview vxy Turn to Sports, Page 6A vJ
7Nt hip io. If7 (, tnnl Winnhifsl ll's II ' ilnvsihf. Wmch 2ft. l7f 1 Srliuis 3JJ lari 15 ( cut.
BfBSflkes
Dead frogs and fish litter a pond on Bill Kemner's land in right, discusses remedies with Norfolk and Western
Sturgeon, where ponds alongside the Norfolk & Western personel and D. W. Ryckman, president of Ryckman's
Railroad tracks have been found to be polluted with Emergency Action & Consulting Team,
orthochlorophenol. EPA engineer Harry Gilmer, top
N& W to clean spoiled ponds
ByMikeDeMott
Missoorian stafi writer
STURGEON A chemical engineer for the
Environmental Protection Agency said
Tuesday Norfolk and Western Railroad is
responsible for cleaning up the contaminated
ponds near the site of the Jan 10 Sturgeon
train derailment
The railroad has accepted the decision and
has agreed to clean the two ponds and pay for
all costs involved Railroad officials have
hired an outside consulting firm to assist
On Monday, tbe railroad contacted a St.
Louis- base- d company, Ryckman's Emer-gency
Action & Consulting Team, which is
conducting a background investigation into
the chemical spill with proposals for site
restoration Mark Ryckman, REACT vice
president, said it is still too early to say which
Insight
method and procedure will be used to restore
the area.
Harry Gilmer, the EPA engineer, met with
railroad representatives at the spill site
Tuesday and offered suggestions for
removing the toxic chemicals in the ponds
Gilmer said there are several ways in which
the pond water may be treated He suggested
three possibilities
A carbon absorption method in which
pond water would be passed through carbon
filters or a carbon device would be placed in
the water to trap the chemical pollutant or-thochlorophenol
An ionic exchange process using a resin
bed to exchange pollutant tons with ions in the
bed
A biological degredation method using a
culture to break down the pollutant
chemically J
Gilmer said the EPA's biggest concern is
that no further pond water drains into nearby
Saling Creek. Simple earth dikes were built
by the railroad to seal the ponds after the
pollutant chemical w as found in the ponds
Gilmer said some of the chemicals were
found in the creek, but he didn't know w hether
it could be considered contaminated Rail-road
and REACT representabves are
scheduled to meet with EPA personnel
Monday to review a plan to restore the area
4tyckman said a timetable for complete
restoration may be made Monday
Gilmer said EPA will conduct independent
tests to verify the progress of the restoration
and to determine safe chemical levels in the
water for the railroad to achieve
rather than reserving comment to the White
House The State Department spokesman,
Hodding Carter, called the increase ' untimeh
and unjustified '
One exception, however, was Alfred E Kahn
the president s anti- inflati- on adviser, who issued
a statement saying that until the United States
reduces its dependence on OPEC oil. ' we can
expect them to extort from us everything they
think the market will bear "
Based on a daily import of 8 5 million barrels of
crude oil and refined products, the OPEC in
crease in the base pnce will add one to two cents
to the price of a gallon of gasoline at the pump
about $ 825 million to the expected $ 20 billion trade
deficit, and a small fraction to inflation
That analysis, however, did not take into ac-count
the effect of the surcharges that mav be
charged bv members of OPEC Libva ana
Venezuela already have announced such in-creases
President Carter met Tuesday with Secretary
of Energy James R Schlesinger and with several
members of the House and Senate, including Sen
Henry M Jackson, D- Wa- sh , chairman of the
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
After the meeting, Jackson told newsmen the
main topic of discussion was the president's new
energv policy, the announcement of which has
been postponed until sometime next week
Democrats discuss severe cut in revenue sharing
By Paul O. Wilson
Washington bureau
WASHINGTON Democrats on the House
Budget Committee began closed discussions
Tuesday on staff recommendations aimed at
eliminating state revenue sharing for fiscal year
1980.
Although the move is significant, it is only the
first step by the committee in a long budgetary
process that could if successful deny
Missouri $ 43 million in anticipated revenue. The
reduction would mean either substantial
program cuts or healthy tax increases for
Missounans.
Rep. Richard A. Gephardt, D- Th- ird District,
Missouri's only congressman on the important
Budget Committee, said, " It was the staffs
recommendation that state revenue sharing be
exorcised from the budget."
In 1978 Missouri received $ 129 million for
state, county and local revenue sharing The
proposal discussed in the Budget Committee
would eliminate only the state's share Ted
Bornstein, director of the state's Washington
office, said, " Missouri would be severely hurt by
eliminating the state's share of revenue sharing
It would mean cutting capital improvements
and human services, or raising taxes to make up
the difference."
He also said the move is particularly
disturbing because the Missouri Legislature
already is planning to spend its share of the
money in July.
" They are changing the rules in the middle of
the game," Bornstein said. " The program is not
due to expire for another year, and the state is
counting on that money desperately "
One of the major reasons behind the proposal
is the huge budget surpluses that states like
Alaska, Texas and California have built up But
Bornstein said it is unfair to penalize Missouri
for the way Gov. Jerry Brown has run
California
" It was disgracefully negligent of California
to amass the kind of surplus they did " Born-stein
said
He also said that for states like Missouri, " The
surplus is tied to the vaganes of the economy,
and we can't control that Besides, every state
has to have an emergency fund " Missouri
maintains a $ 50 million surplus for emergencies
Even if the budget committee compromised
and decided to cut state revenue sharing by half,
Bornstein said the move " would still create
terrible havoc for Missouri "
Gephardt said he already is feeling pressure
from Missouri on the issue, having been
telegrammed by the governor, called by Born- ste- m
and contacted by the mayor's office in St
Lotus
The proposal if accepted by the Democratic
Caucus would still have to go through the full
committee, the House, and the Senate before it
could be signed into law by the president
In town
today
9 8. m. to 3 p. m. Central
Missouri Regional High School
Senior Exhibition, Fine Arts
Gallery, University.
Noon to S pja. Five Centuries
of Master Graphics, Museum of
Art and Archaeology, Pickard
Hall, University.
7 p-- m. " Women in Music:
Ancient Tunes to the Present,"
Charters Lecture Auditorium, j
Stephens College. j
'
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of mall's impact
By Craig Overfelt and Kathryn Phflhps
Missounan staff writers
The board of directors of the Downtown Special
Business District Tuesday night passed a resolu-tion
asking the Citv Council to study the feasibil
it of locating a regional shopping mall in central
Columbia The vote was 7-- 0
If the feasibility study shows the mall would be
' in the public interest" and would strengthen the
downtown economy . the resolution also asks the
council to take affirmative action m conjunction
with private enterprise to locate the mall in the
downtown' area
Anytime a mall of ths size comes into a com-munity,
studies should be done to determine the
location and the communitv interest," said board
chairman Marquis Landrum, president of First
National Bank and Trust Co
In front of a standing- room- onl- y crowd in the
Countv- Cit- v Building, Landrum said it is not an
obstructionist resolution If the studies indicate
that a mall is needed in Columbia, I'm in fav or of
having one here All w e want is for the city to take
a strong stand on the location and feasibility of a
regional mall "
Landrum the resolution's author, voluntanlv
withdrew two points which would have asked the
council to prohibit and delav the establishment of
a regional mall outside the downtown area
Favoring the revised resolution, board member
and local attorney Dave Bear said, " I don't see
anything wrong with asking the City Council to
make studies to see what the impact will be, but I
don't think we should ask the City Council to
make a resolution to delay, prohibit or tell the
maU where to locate itself '
But downtown businessman Glenn Braden
owner of Suzie Scott's Children's World. 710 E
Broadway, was opposed even to a council studv
before the April 3 election " The timing is abso-lutely
bad What would they ( City Council
members ) have' A week to introduce the thing'' I
don't think we need a studv
One large mall already is m the planning
stages Dalton and Daniel Patterson of Columbia
said March 13 they are joining the St Louis- base- d
May Department Stores Co in planning the con-struction
of a mall here of up to 800,000 square
feet ( 72 000 square meters)
Following the mall decision the board heard a
report on downtown parking from Assistant Citv
Manager Charles Hargrove
There are about 4,100 publicly and privately
owned parking spaces in the central business
district Hargrov e said Traffic in that area has
exceeded parking capacity, making parking a
major issue among council candidates
The citv will complete an agreement to buv the
old Waoash railroad station next week, Hargrov e
said, and immediately will construct a surface
parking lot on the cleared areas of that land
Carter thinks oil price hike
may have been much worse
From our wire services
WASHINGTON The Carter administration
reacted with apparent calm Tuesday to the latest
increases in crude oil prices announced in
Geneva by the Organization of Petroleum Ex-porting
Countries The increases mean that the
consumer soon will pay one to tw o cents more for
a gallon of gasoline
The increase, which will add 70 cents to the
pnce of a barrel of imported oil o er that planned
earlier for April 1, was the least that anv official
or oil analvst here expected from the two- da- y
meeting
The OPEC members increased prices bv 9
percent and gave all OPEC members free rem to
tack on unlimited extra surcharges'" that will
add billions of dollars to the world's fuel bill
The 13- nati- on group voted at its two- da- v con-ference
to raise crude oil prices from $ 13 34 to
$ 14 54 per barrel But in addition, the conference
chairman announced, every OPEC state ' is free
to lay on whatever premium or surcharge it
wants "
The pricing decision, which takes effect Sun-day,
indicated a sky ' s- the- u-mit
approach by the
oil" cartel but it also reflected a split between
radical and moderate members of OPEC
The administration's attitude was signaled by a
decision to allow the State Department to respond
Few issues emerge in Second Ward race
By Wayne J. Heflman
Missoorian staff writer
Few issues have emerged in the
Second Ward race between Holme
Hickman and James Williams. Neither
candidate has campaigned extensively
or expects to do so. Neither plans to
attack his opponent's stand on any
issue.
Hickman, however, is quick to point
1 out several problems that will face the
City Council during the next two years.
He says the council will have to select
additional sources of electricity to meet
its rapidly growing needs. The options
include construction of a new plant that
would take more than seven years to
complete.
The aty could pool its resources with
another mumcipality, but receive only
a limited portion of its output while
needs continue to grow. The city could
continue to purchase electricity from a
commercial supplier, but instability in
supply and costs make continued
purchases unlikely.
Hickman ays the council should use
Profiles Page ISA
zero- base- d budgeting to determine
whether it will need a new revenue
source. Each city department head
would have to justify the entire alloca-tion
in any budget rather than just
adding funds for higher costs and new
programs. If the city studies new
revenue sources, it also should consider
the eqitability of the systems, he says.
Electric rates should be examined to
determine what type of use the rate
promotes, Hickman says The council
probably will be asked to revise the
rates to promote energy conservation
and to discourage use during peak
hours.
A major decision will have to made,
Hickman says, on what steps the
council should take to preserve the
downtown shopping area Construction
of a regional shopping mall could draw
much of the area's sales from down-town
merchants.
Both Hickman and Williams favor the
widening of West Broadway. Hickman
says the street must be widened to
provide effective ingress and regress to
the downtown area. Without effective
routes to the downtown area, he says,
shoppers will be discouraged from
going there.
Williams says the aty should im-prove
health standards in low- inco- me
housing projects. He says new
programs are need to emphasize the
quality of basic services, Including
water purity and sewer operations.